John Lechner Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

• Coordinated with marketing, sales, and customer success leadership to determine yearly schedule of events.• Owned all in-person event logistics and operations from ideation to completion for 35 activations in 14 states.• Set and managed budgets, sourced and confirmed venues and vendors, created runs-of-show, and managed 1-25 staff per event.• Managed all onsite event tasks; venue set up and material management, attendee check-in, stage management.• Owned and project managed all convention and trade show experiential event tasks for 16 conventions in 11 states.• Facilitated conference experiences for 350+ participants and attendees at LeagueApps’ flagship youth-sports summit, NextUp.• Coordinated and stage-managed 40+ company virtual events.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is a international human rights event series of 1,000+ attendees held in Oslo, Norway; Johannesburg, South Africa; Taipei, Taiwan; and New York City. • Facilitated event experience for participants and attendees, including Nobel Prize winners and laureates, world leaders, lauded human rights advocates, international business leaders, and philanthropists.• Curated and maintained OFF website and managed conference management software and mobile apps for all events. Increased app downloads from 128 to 340 between 2017 and 2018 events. • Oversaw development and implementation of Tech Lab & Interactive Exhibition programming with 49 outside vendors and partner organizations.• Worked with local production teams on event logistics coordination and supervised video editing team for timely release of OFF video content, which included 20 10-minute videos per event.• Planned, developed, and maintained post-event collaborative design with integrated solution design firm.• Coordinated and developed panel discussion and working lunch programming.• Verified and vetted attendee, media, and speaker invitees.

New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Drafted and edited written materials including press releases, legal reports, web content, promotional materials, and funding proposals. • Coordinated logistics with North Korean refugees, defectors, and activists living in South Korea to bring educational material and news into North Korea. • Maintained electronic architecture and managed email client and other online employee accounts. • Created and edited website content, transferred website content, and formatted website pages. • Monitored organization's online security, including coordinating third party web security consultations.

Greater New York City Area

• Conducted in-depth research on a variety of socio-economic topics concerning civil and political rights around the world, with an emphasis on Latin America, Russia and East Asia.

Syracuse, New York Area

• I served as an ambassador and role model to residents in my off-campus residential area. As a Community Ambassador (CA) I provided a point of contact for student-residents on their assigned block, provided access to resources, and helped build a community in order to ease the transition to off-campus living.

Syracuse, New York Area

Greater New York City Area

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Greater Chicago Area

Greater New York City Area

As an intern for the Human Rights Foundation, I performed a variety of tasks, including but not limited to: date entry, preliminary research for upcoming projects, time-stamping and transcribing our YouTube videos, and editing of official documents.